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Modgepodge
100
This is the definition for sustainability
What is "forests' capacity to maintain health, productivity, diversity, & overall integrity, in the long run, in the context of human activity & use?"
100
East Texas is this type of forest.
What is deciduous, loblolly/short leaf pine?
100
DOUBLE! This law was created for animals like the RCW, Louisiana pine snake, golden-cheeked warbler, etc.
What is Endangered Species Act?
100
This insect can cause huge economic problems by causing electrical problems.
What is Tawny (raspberry) Crazy Ant?
100
These are four things you should think about when at a forest site.
What is biotic/abiotic, climate, topography, & edaphic?
200
DOUBLE! This is the definition for edaphic.
What is soil?
200
Definition for biome.
What is major ecological community: a division of the world's vegetation that corresponds to a defined climate and is characterized by specific types of plants and animals?
200
These laws were created due to pollution.
What is Clean Water Act and Clean Air Act?
200
This insect causes a vascular wilt disease in the trees that are in the Lauraceae family.
What is Red-bay Ambrosia Beetle?
200
These are the 7 multiple uses of the forest.
What is timber, recreation, wildlife, wilderness, water, minerals, & range?
300
This is the definition for forest conservation.
What is "protection, preservation, management, and/or restoration of natural environments and the ecological communities that inhabit them?"
300
Name one thing of great importance that you have learned.
What is something great and smart! Freebee
300
This law deals with 5 of the 7 values put on forests and state the 5 involved.
What is Multiple Use Act, timber, water, recreation, wildlife, & range?
300
This is the name of the beetle that was recently found in AR, is detected using sticky purple prism traps, and is eaten by a native wasp. (very important!)
What is Emerald Ash Borer (EAB)?
300
These are 2 very important men and which believes which.
Who is Gifford Pinchot (conservation) & John Muir (preservation)?
400
This is the definition of forestry.
What is "art, science, & practice of creating, managing, using, & conserving forests and associated resources for human benefit and in a sustainable manner to meet desired goals, needs, & values?"
400
This is the number of vegetation areas in Texas. Name 3.
What is 10. Pineywoods, gulf prairies & marshes, post oak savannah, blackland prairies, cross timbers & prairies, south Texas plains, Edwards plateau, rolling plains, high plains, and trans-pecos, mtns & basins
400
This is the meaning of the letters... SFI.
What is Sustainable Forestry Initiative?
400
This is the name of a computer program that can be used to detect forest insects and disease outbreaks as well as other uses in forestry.
What is pictometry?
400
DOUBLE! These are the 5 things that forests are.
What is complex, diverse, dynamic, competitive, & sustainable?
500
This is the definition for ecosystem.
What is "an assemblage of living organisms interacting with each other and their non-living environment, usually in a defined space?"
500
This is the definition for ecological succession.
What is the gradual and orderly process of change in an ecosystem brought about by the progressive replacement of one community by another until a stable climax is established?
500
These are the 3 forest certifications that you may get.
What is Tree Farm System, International Standards Organization (ISO), Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)?
500
This disease is transmitted by the walnut twig beetle.
What is Thousand Cankers Disease?
500
DOUBLE! These are the de-railers for leaders.
What is not being dependable, failure to communicate & include others, failure to build & lead a team, failure to meet the objectives & goals of a project, inability to adapt?